Following week two of this season of Married At First Sight Australia the big question on everyone’s minds has been, ‘Why didn’t Sam contact Elizabeth while he was away at a funeral?’

But as it turns out, maybe he legitimately couldn’t!

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In case you missed it, this week we saw runaway groom Sam Ball ditch Elizabeth Sobinoff the morning after their wedding to go to a funeral in New Zealand.

Lizzie was left distraught after Sam failed to contact her for an entire week and ignored her voicemail messages until finally reappearing in dramatic fashion at the first Dinner Party with nothing to say for himself but a ‘Honey I’m home!’.

While all of us watching at home assumed that Sam didn’t contact Elizabeth because he had no interest in the relationship and didn’t feel a connection, a former MAFS contestant has since come forward in the groom’s defence, saying he knows the real reason for Sam’s lack of contact.

According to News Corp, Telv Williams, who appeared on 2018’s season of the reality dating show, took to his Instagram stories to put in his two cents on the drama. Telv claimed that it would’ve been producers that stopped Sam from making contact with his bride.